Online Quantitative Research Methods: A Scoping Review on Education, Psychological Factors in E-Learning, and Working from Home

Quantitative research methods have undergone an online evolution both in content, in the data collected, but also in methodology and tools. The article is a scoping review that aims to trace the emerging issues in the field of research methodology. The online research has embraced the most disparate fields of research, in this review we have chosen to circumscribe to three main themes: education, psychological factors in elearning and working from home. Specifically, the emergence of an important amount of data such as big data and learning analytics made it necessary to review the purposes, methods of analyzing and reading emerging data in research contexts. The emerging themes during the pandemic related to education, psychological factors in elearning and working from home have had a research intervention due to social isolation and the need for such application models in the context of the pandemic.